Having sex with woman in her menses produces albinos – Ayariga

[KamaAina]

Not. The. Onion.

http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Having-sex-with-woman-in-her-menses-produces-albinos-Ayariga-443497

Making love to a woman during her menstrual period produces children with albinism (albinos), flagbearer of the All People’s Congress (APC) Mr Hassan Ayariga has said.

Speaking on Class91.3FM’s Executive Breakfast Show on Tuesday May 31 about discrimination against Persons Living with Albinism, as well as recent fears expressed by such persons in Ghana that they risked being targeted and ritually murdered by politicians to enhance their electoral fortunes in the forthcoming November presidential and parliamentary polls, the APC flagbearer said: “I did some survey and I was told anybody can give birth to an albino, but the process is this way: ‘…If your wife is bleeding and in the process you are too hungry and you don’t want to wait until it’s over, and you decide to do the thing while she’s bleeding, in the process if she gets pregnant – you know some [women] can get pregnant even while bleeding – that is when that particular child (albino) is born.’ That’s what I’m told, because of the process of blood [flow]. So, if in that process it happens that there are some women who are too fertile even as they bleed, [then they can give birth to an albino].”

Mr Ayariga’s claim about how Persons Living with Albinism are born comes a week after the Executive Director of the Ghana Association of Persons with Albinism, Newton Komla Katseku, told Onua 95.1FM in an interview that they feared politicians would kill them for fortunes....

Across Africa (from Malawi, Tanzania, and Burundi in the east, to Cameroon in the west) albinos are targeted for ritual murder. It is believed they have magical powers or bring good luck. They are killed, and their body parts are sold to be used in potions made by witchdoctors. In Ghana, just as in many African countries, albinos are discriminated against in society in various ways. The many myths surrounding their existence make people shun them and treat them with disdain. They are denied marriage, love, access to accommodation for rental, access to education, among a raft of other things. They are mocked at and made to feel like the scum of the earth.

[awoke_in_2003]

1. Is this the same country..

that brought us "they eat the poo poo"?

[KamaAina]

2. Nope. That was Uganda.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/25/uganda-anti-gay-martin-ssempa_n_5213571.html

[awoke_in_2003]

4. Ah yes, thanks. nt

[herding cats]

3. " It is believed they have magical powers or bring good luck."

They are killed, and their body parts are sold to be used in potions made by witchdoctors. In Ghana, just as in many African countries, albinos are discriminated against in society in various ways. The many myths surrounding their existence make people shun them and treat them with disdain. They are denied marriage, love, access to accommodation for rental, access to education, among a raft of other things. They are mocked at and made to feel like the scum of the earth.

That's one F'd up concept of good luck! Just like a dead rabbit foot were supposed to be lucky, excluding the fact it didn't help the poor rabbit escape slaughter for said token.

[Iggo]

6. Magic.